The government is now trying to turn technology against the protesters. Officials have started a number of fake opposition pages on Twitter, which are tweeting propaganda and misleading information. I became an unwitting victim when a user named ‘persian_guy’ retweeted several things under my name which I didn’t write. Here are a couple:

Persian_Guy: RT @jimsciuttoABC Tehran's upper class leading protests, the majority of the population suffers by the chaos from vocal minority #iran #gr88

That ‘Tehran’s upper class’ are forcing the protests on average Iranians is a common government line, dismissing the protesters as a bunch of privileged kids. Thankfully, a few of my followers spotted the RT and started spreading the word. Opposition Twitterers have disseminated a list of several fake opposition pages: http://twitspam.org/?p=1403